Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation.

Eunuch Wei made a lot of calculations, but he didn't even think that there would be a thunderstorm in March.

This heavy rain completely disrupted my father-in-law's deployment plan, and directly led to the coalition forces being unable to arrive in Heituara on schedule.

The current situation is that when facing a muddy road, not to mention that the large and small cannons carried by the army cannot pass easily, even the large trucks that transport grain and grass can take ten steps and stop for five steps. Sometimes soldiers need to unload the grain bags and carry them with manpower, otherwise the carriage and horses will not be able to climb.

Some areas close to the mountains have rockfalls and landslides. Although the engineers are repairing the emergency, repairs also require a large amount of materials. Due to road restrictions, it is difficult to provide timely supplies to the rear, which makes the army's advance slower.

The vanguard of the army was the Fifth Infantry Regiment, which belonged to the First Army Guard Division. The gang was best at long-distance marching. The speed of 84 miles in a day was to create the best in the entire army. However, in the face of the complex Jianzhou terrain, the Fifth Infantry Regiment was also difficult to create miracles.

The captain of the regiment, Ding Xiaogong, who was originally from Gaoyouwei, was sending people to find other ways.

However, according to the people from the Returning Group, there are several roads leading from Jierling to Heituara, but except for this road widened by Jianzhou based on the former Ming army post road, the rest are small roads that cross mountains and ridges, and they cannot walk the army at all!

This forced the entire army to continue to stagger in the mud.

The chief of staff who served as the battle was Li Yanzhao, the former captain of the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Guard Division.

During the Battle of Edo, the Sixth Infantry Regiment made great contributions. After the war, Li Yanzhao was promoted to the commander of the brigade of the First Brigade of the Guards Division. The Sixth Infantry Regiment and the Fifth and Fourth Infantry Regiments of his troops were transferred back to the country to quell the rebellion, and were the main force of the coalition forces in the anti-slave alliance.

In addition to these three infantry corpses, there were one cavalry corps, one engineer corps, one artillery corps, two brigades of the First Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army, one brigade of the Second Mixed Brigade, and the Imperial Army General Affairs Brigade of the New Japan Kingdom participated in the Battle of Jianzhou, with a total force of more than 21,000 people.

In addition, more than 20,000 captured shogunate soldiers were escorted back to the country, some of which served as husbands and some were trained to serve as decisive squads.

In addition to the 13,000 Korean soldiers led by Jiang Hongli of the North Korean side, the Yizhou general He Shiyi's troops, the two brigades of the Ming Dynasty's Zhongzheng Division, the North Korean Special Detachment, and the entire coalition force reached nearly 70,000.

It can be said that this coalition force formed by Eunuch Wei, which returned to Korea to quell the rebellion, was not weaker than the four-way troops formed by Yang Hao in terms of actual combat personnel. In terms of weapons, equipment and combat experience, it was even stronger than the imperial troops.

However, just as Yang Hao had to divide his troops into four routes due to the terrain of Jianzhou and march towards Heituara, Eunuch Wei also faced the problem of unfavorable terrain and inconvenient transportation here.

The base camp also suggested that the troops should be divided into rushing forward, heading north from Yizhou and crossing the river from the North Korean Jing'an Protector.

However, Eunuch Wei insisted on the "rolling barrel combat" plan and required the army to concentrate and attack Jianzhou in sequence like rolling barrels.

In this way, the base camp can only modify the plan according to Eunuch Wei's requirements.

In the final combat plan formulated by the base camp in February, road issues were actually discussed as an important issue. Because if this problem is not solved, the army cannot be said to be rolling forward.

In the plan, the Anguo Temple engineer corps, which were transferred back to China, was mainly responsible for solving road problems.

At the same time, in order to better transport supplies, the Emperor's Personal Army Liaison Office set up in Seoul asked the North Korean government to provide a large number of cattle and horses for use by the Imperial Army. Xie'an District was also mobilized to provide transportation capacity for the Imperial Army.

The cattle, horses and livestock were more than 20,000 (horse) in requisitions. The ox and horses used to pull carts alone reached nearly fifty miles long at the peak of the marching.

In order to reduce transportation inconvenience, the artillery brought back to China by the Imperial Army this time was mainly concentrated on medium and light artillery, with the heaviest being only more than 500 kilograms.

Although the Imperial Army's artillery range was insufficient, the number was as many as more than 400. Half of the artillery used by the former Tokugawa Shogunate Army to defend the city were pulled back.

Eunuch Wei hopes that in the Battle of Jianzhou, all the Imperial Army units can cooperate closely and exert the infantry coordination tactics they had previously practiced in actual combat.

Therefore, my father-in-law repeatedly emphasized that the number of artillery can only increase but not decrease.

The headquarters and various departments coordinated, and finally managed to ensure that the army could set off on schedule.

However, no one expected heavy rain to come suddenly.

A heavy rain completely destroyed the original combat plan - it was impossible for the army to arrive in Hetuala on schedule before March 25.

The problem eventually fell on Eunuch Wei.

My father-in-law, who had been walking three miles with a crutch in the mud and water, sat on a stone on the side of the road and pointed a Chinese stick in a daze.

He knew very well that this would not work. At this speed, the date when the army arrived in Hetuala was at least half a month later, when the daylily was cold.

Earlier in Yizhou, Wang Tiqian told his father-in-law that Dusong's tribe had advanced to Fushun, so from the perspective of time, Dusong's tribe has either crossed the river and advanced towards Sarhu, or has been nailed to death by Nurhaci.

Liu's troops set out from Qingyuan Fort earlier and followed Nurhaci's strategy of going all the way. Liu's troops would not encounter large-scale interception by the Jin army during the in-depth process, so they should be about to reach Abu Daligang now.

There was also the place where Liu Jing was defeated.

In his father-in-law's previous life, Nurhaci first solved Du Song and then Marin. Then he returned to the east to intercept Liu Jing in Abudaligang.

This time, Nurhaci was the same.

If it weren't for this heavy rain, the Imperial Army would have a chance to take advantage of the fact that Nurhaci was attracted by Liu Ju, and directly headed towards Heituara, and then took Heituara as the basis to deal with the exhausted Nurhaci.

The Eight Banners, which had been gnawing three hard bones, Du Song, Ma Lin and Liu Jing, suffered heavy losses. (If Li Rubai had not been frightened and fled, his troops would continue to implement the original plan, and his father-in-law highly doubted whether the Eight Banners, which had severely reduced their personnel, could fight again.)

But this heavy rain completely made the plan empty.

Where to go, is it to bite the bullet and continue the original plan, or to change direction to support Liu Zhen, the father-in-law is facing a dilemma.

Continuing the original plan, the Ming army might have lost all three groups. Nurhaci successfully returned to Heituara. The imperial army, who was dragged by the heavy rain, faced Heituara who was already prepared, and perhaps another Sarhu was defeated.

Change the direction to support Liu Jing. Is it possible to save Liu Jing? After the war, the Imperial Army is unlikely to go deeper into Hei Tuala.

This time, in order to fight against slavery, my father-in-law almost lost all his money, even though most of the military expenditure and food were provided by North Korea.

If Nurhaci cannot be resolved this time, the Imperial Army will be unable to launch such an offensive again within at least three years.

One, two, three...

When more than a dozen cigarette butts were scattered on the mud, my father-in-law finally got up. He patted his butt, rolled up his trouser legs covered in mud, and said to Lao Jiu beside him: "Go and say to Chief Li, don't go and attack Tuala."

"Don't fight against Tuala?"

Wei Laojiu was stunned, "Where will you go?"

“Go to Abu Daligan.”

After saying that, his father-in-law continued to walk forward in the mud and water with his crutch. In front, hundreds of soldiers were pushing the cannon cart forward with difficulty.

"Let's go and help."

The father-in-law threw down his crutch and joined the team of the cannon pushing carts. His arrival greatly boosted the soldiers. Everyone shouted horns and tried hard together, and finally pushed more than a dozen cannons out of the mud.

My father-in-law was so tired that he was breathing. He stood by the roadside and watched the soldiers passing by. These were all good soldiers of the Emperor's personal army he established, but he didn't know how many people would be buried in the black soil of the white mountains this time.

Looking into the distant north again, my father-in-law's eyes were complicated.

Now it depends on whether the Dusong tribe can drag Nurhaci for a few more days. The longer the Dusong tribe drags, the more time the Liu Zhen and Nurhaci will encounter the victory of the main force. Then, it will give the Imperial Army time to arrive in time.

If Du Song was defeated too quickly, Wei Liangchen could only retreat to Yizhou in shame.
Chapter completed!